Resilience and Water

This project addresses a critical technological gap in fostering coordinated resilient design across Minnesota focused on freshwater systems and connected ecologies. While there is a wealth of data and initiatives that aid in resilience design at many scales, these discrete resources lack:

-A comprehensive and coordinated set of data.
-Site-specific tools for ecological/spatial analysis at a granular scale.
-Rationalized preliminary resilience design guidance.
-The ability to tie individual projects to larger state, regional, and watershed-scale resilience goals and initiatives.

Given the team's expertise in both research and real-world design/engineering, we see an opportunity through this project to:

-Leverage and integrate existing state programs, resources and datasets related to resilience design and climate change into a single graphic user interface.
-Develop a series of geospatial analysis/queries that help determine and present a suite of effective resilience strategies that can be implemented at the building, district, and watershed scales for any project site.
-Enhance rural and urban communities’ ability to coordinate and appropriately design infrastructural projects, individual building projects, and community-based resilience strategies by tying each individual project to larger watershed-scale and regional goals across Minnesota.
-Present resilience strategies that simultaneously preserve Minnesota's natural resources and increase risk tolerance statewide.